I found no definite death record, but in bio info on his son James Buchanan Bennett it gave his full name John Hampton Bennett and his and his wife's (J B Bennett's mother of course) full name, their marriage date and place and death dates for both. There are the 1850, 1860, and 1870 US Fed Censuses which list him as Hampton Bennett. By 1871 his wife Harriet and son Oliver Hampton Bennett ( 19 yrs in 1869) had died. So if he did die in 1871 he was about 54.
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